Understanding of protomers/deprotomers by combining mass spectrometry and computation

D Fu, SG Habtegabir, H Wang, S Feng… - Analytical and Bioanalytical …, 2023 - Springer
Multifunctional compounds may form different prototropic isomers under different conditions,
which are known as protomers/deprotomers. In biological systems, these …

Gas‐phase Förster resonance energy transfer in mass‐selected and trapped ions

J Langeland, TT Lindkvist, C Kjær… - Mass spectrometry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Förster Resonance Energy transfer (FRET) is a nonradiative process that may occur from an
electronically excited donor to an acceptor when the emission spectrum of the donor …

Tracking Isomerizations of High-Energy Adenine Cation Radicals by UV–Vis Action Spectroscopy and Cyclic Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry

V Zima, M Vlk, J Wan, J Cvačka… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report experimental and computational studies of protonated adenine C-8 σ-radicals that
are presumed yet elusive reactive intermediates of oxidative damage to nucleic acids. The …

Monitoring intramolecular proton transfer with ion mobility-mass spectrometry and in-source ion activation

Y Valadbeigi, T Causon - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we show how intramolecular proton transfer can be induced and monitored with the
example of polycyclic aromatic amines using in-source ion-activation and ion mobility-mass …

[HTML][HTML] Photoelectron imaging of cryogenically cooled BiO− and BiO2− anions

GS Kocheril, HW Gao, DF Yuan… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The advent of ion traps as cooling devices has revolutionized ion spectroscopy as it is now
possible to efficiently cool ions vibrationally and rotationally to levels where truly high …

Chemometrics and antioxidant activity assisted nontargeted metabolomics for the identification of ginger species

W Tang, SC Zhu, XJ Tan, J Cao, LH Ye - Journal of Pharmaceutical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
An ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography coupled with ion mobility quadrupole time-
of-flight mass spectrometry method was developed for the separation and identification of …

[HTML][HTML] High-Throughput UV Photoionization and Fragmentation of Neutral Biomolecules as a Structural Fingerprint

S Wang, Y Dauletyarov, DA Horke - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
We present UV photofragmentation studies of the structural isomers paracetamol, 3-
Pyridinepropionic acid (3-PPIA) and (R)-(-)-2-Phenylglycine. In particular, we utilized a new …

Terminal Copper Nitrenoid Formation and Reactivity Induced by Absorption to an Antenna Ligand

N de Kler, AY Pereverzev… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Copper nitrenoids are key intermediates in copper‐catalyzed direct C− H amination
reactions. Further development of this important reaction relies on knowing the properties …

Manipulating Non-Dissociative Transformations of Gaseous Ion Ensembles Prior to Ion-Mobility Separation

M Kumar, AB Attygalle - Journal of the American Society for Mass …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecules with multiple sites capable of accepting protons form ensembles of protomers.
The manifested protomer ratios in such ensembles are influenced by many experimental …

Vibrational and electronic spectra of protonated vanillin: exploring protonation sites and isomerisation

A Gutiérrez-Quintanilla, B Moge… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Photofragmentation spectra of protonated vanillin produced under electrospray ionisation
(ESI) conditions have been recorded in the 3000–3700 cm− 1 (vibrational) and 225–460 nm …